Description:
Stoneware bottle coated with a layer of brown, iron-rich slip, and stamp-impressed with "D. GOODALE." This bottle would have held beverages like beer, cider, or ale, and was possibly used in a tavern setting. Absalom Stedman's New Haven 1830's period broadside (copy owned by Connecticut Historical Society) refers to "Pop Bottles, Made to order" for sale; the bottles are usually impressed with the name of the bottler, not the manufacturer. Daniel Goodale is mentioned residing in Whately, Massachusetts, in a 1817 deed in which Goodale and Roderick Bannister Harwood (1795-1870), son of Dr. Francis Harwood (1763-1835) of Whately, bought a land parcel in Whately. There are four entries made from 1817 to 1819 in the account book of William Mather (1766-1835) of Whately, a cabinetmaker, housewright, brickmaker, mason, glazier, wheelwright and famer, referring to "repairing shop by contract", "covering shop", "work on fence and timber." However, there is no documentation that this was a pottery shop, and no documented examples of their pottery are known today. Although Goodale moved to Hartford, possibly by 1818, in 1821 he bought the "one acre with the buildings" Whately site used by Sanford S. Perry to manufacture black-glazed earthenwares. It not known how Goodale used the lot. In Hartford, Goodale managed the stoneware pottery owned by two retired sea captains, George Benton and Levi Stewart, from about 1818 to 1822, making wares stamped "G. BENTON & L. STEWART / HARTFORD." The site was one of two on Front Street originally owned by Peter Cross who operated one the earliest stoneware kilns in Hartford between 1801 and 1815. Goodale bought the factory in March 1822 in partnership with Absalom Stedman, and produced wares stamped "GOODALE & STEDMAN / HARTFORD." The partnership was dissolved in December 1822, although Stedman retained possesion of his share of the land and pottery until 1825 when Goodale bought his half. Goodale operated alone, using "D GOODALE / HARTFORD", until 1830 when he could no longer continue financially. In 1828, Goodale was listed in the first Hartford city directory as: "Daniel Goodale, Jr. potter shop, Front, 90; Grocer and potter, store, Ferry, 19; grocer and stoneware merchant, Commerce 54." The "stoneware merchant" designation indicates that the Commerce Street business may have been an wholesale stoneware outlet. Little else is known about Goodale although there is a January 29, 1822 entry in the "History of the Second Church of Hartford" for the marriage of "Daniel Goodale, Jun. Hartford. Lucretia Porter, Hartford." The cylindrical bottle has a narrow base, flaring sides, inwardly canted shoulders, and a tall, narrow neck and curved spout.
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